S&P 500 companies increased their dividends last year by more than $70 billion. Morningstar market strategist Dave Sekera believes some of the companies in the index need to up their dividends. However, he believes 2022 will be the year dividend payments return to following earnings.
Luckily for dividend ETFs, Sekera believes that even with rate hikes in 2022 to 1% from 0%, interest rates will still be at levels only seen once before, during the financial crisis of 2008.
So, the long and the short is that dividend-paying stocks should not be affected by what the Federal Reserve does over the next year.
Here are seven dividend ETFs to keep an eye on
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